Hello
I'm using the latest and greatest Speccy (1.30.730). I just wanted to testify that infos returned by Speccy about the health of a hard drive just isn't reliable.
I currently have a hard disk that's dying, as reported by CrystalDiskInfo and confirmed by worrying sounds. Thankfully, I have a backup and could still copy files out of the drive while it's still OK.
I'm surprised those two apps don't agree, though, since they both read S.M.A.R.T. data off the hard drive.
Cheers,
SMART never claimed to be the last word in the matter of drive health.
At best, it should be used as a guide.
Considering that every user should be backing up regularly anyway, SMART telling you your HD is about to die is pointless, but that's just my opinion.
SMART's biggest flaw is it only gives you the current snapshot of the drives health.
A more accurate picture would be if it keep a history and you could gauge the rate of change of all those stats it keeps.
CrystalDiskInfo is the only monitoring tool to ever give me a warning about the three relocated sectors I have on drive C:, all other tools I've tried and I've tried many also report the relocated sectors however they give a "Good" health rating. I've known about the three relocated sectors for at least 10 years and the hard disk hasn't died yet.